The physicist's greatest tool is his wastebasket.

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it.

It was, of course, a lie what you read about my religious convictions, a lie which is being systematically repeated. I do not believe in a personal God and I have never denied this but have expressed it clearly. If something is in me which can be called religious then it is the unbounded admiration for the structure of the world so far as our science can reveal it.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

Matter is spirit reduced to point of visibility.

Scientists were rated as great heretics by the church, but they were truly religious men because of their faith in the orderliness of the universe.

Strive not to be a success, but rather to be of value.